In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.